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Financial records.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents pertaining to money matters.

Found in 1516 Collections and/or Records:

Copies of papers concerning the Exchequer and King’s rents.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.2.17
Scope and Contents On the first leaf is the inscription “Concerning the Chekker and the Kingis rent 1591”.The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: w.3.11.The contents are as follows: (i) Act of Suretie for Angus McConell of Dunecraig, 1591 (folio 3); (ii) The King’s command to the Seals anent the revocation, 1591 (folio 4); (iii) Act of Suretie for McClane of Dowart, 1591 (folio 11); (iv) Copies of papers by the King, Checker,...
Dates: 1546-Late 16th century.

Copyright receipts concerning payments made by John Murray, publishers, to the contributors to “A dictionary of the Bible” (London: John Murray, 1860-1863), edited by William Smith., 1860-1864.

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Identifier: MS.41125
Scope and Contents Receipts, 1860-1863, concerning work undertaken by William Smith both as the editor of, and as a contributor to, the dictionary. Folios 1-3.Receipts, 1860-1861, concerning payments made to the contributors to volume 1 of the dictionary.Alford, Henry. Folio 4.Bailey, Henry. Folio 5.Barry, Alfred. Folio 6.Bevan, William Latham. Folio 7.Brown, Thomas Edward. Folio 8.Browne, Robert William. Folio 9....
Dates: 1860-1864.

Correspondence, 1803, between John Murray II and Archibald Constable, publisher: and, correspondence, 1804-1805, between John Murray II and Archibald Constable and Co., publishers., 1803-1805.

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Identifier: MS.40238
Scope and Contents The correspondence concerns the business relations between John Murray II and Archibald Constable and his partners, and includes receipts, invoices and other business papers. The papers are arranged chronologically. 1803. Correspondence between John Murray II and Archibald Constable. Folios 1-14.1804. Letter, 19 October 1804, of Alexander Gibson Hunter to John Murray II. Folios 15-16. Fragment of a letter, 29 December 1804, of A. Constable and Co. to John...
Dates: 1803-1805.

Correspondence, accounts and miscellaneous papers of Alexander Turnbull Christie., 1825-1838, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.9497
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) Letters, 1827-1832, to Alexander Turnbull Christie, with a few copies of his own letters (folio 1);

(ii) Financial papers, 1825-1831, undated (folio 59);

(iii) Design for a house, circa 1830 (folio 69);

(iv) 'De membranae mucosae pathologia', circa 1828 (folio 71);

(v) Miscellaneous scientific papers, 1831, 1838, undated, of Christie and John Turnbull of Abbey St Bathans (folio 99).

Dates: 1825-1838, undated.

Correspondence and financial papers of the 2nd Earl of Minto., 1817-1841.

 File
Identifier: MS.11956
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Correspondence and statements of account received from the Royal Bank of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1817, 1825-1829 (folio 1); (ii) Correspondence and statements received from the British Linen Company's Jedburgh branch bank, 1824-1832, 1835, 1841 (folio 26); (iii) Letters and related papers, 1832-1834, relating to transactions with Schickler Brothers, Bankers, Berlin (folio 62).

Dates: 1817-1841.

Correspondence and legal, financial and other papers of the Dunlop family.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.9250-9307
Scope and Contents Much of the collection concerns William Dunlop, Principal of Glasgow University, his son Alexander, Professor of Greek at Glasgow, and his grandson John, Tide Surveyor at Greenock. The papers of William Dunlop include material on the colony of South Carolina, the Darien Scheme, and the affairs of the Church of Scotland, while those of Alexander chiefly concern the University of Glasgow. The collection also includes diaries and literary works of John Dunlop of Gairbraid, the temperance...
Dates: 1605-1952.

Correspondence and miscellaneous papers of the family of MacLeod of Geanies.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.19295-19308
Scope and Contents The correspondence and papers chiefly relate to Donald, 3rd of Geanies and his issue, including a series of letters from members of the family in America in the 1770s and on military and naval service during the Napoleonic wars. The MacLeods of Geanies are descended from the MacLeods of Assynt, a cadet branch of the MacLeods of Lewis. Assynt was lost to the family in the time of Neil, the 9th Baron, and the title but not the estate passed to his brother, John, the family fortunes being...
Dates: 1654-1874.

Correspondence and papers, 1739-1763, concerning Neil McVicar of Fergushill, and financial papers, 1735-1749, concerning Sir William Maxwell of Monreith and his trustees. , 1735-1763.

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Identifier: MS.17734
Scope and Contents

Neil McVicar, a writer in Edinburgh, was convicted in 1738 of professional misconduct and banished from Scotland; there were strong political overtones to the case.

Lord Milton's involvement with Sir William Maxwell is not clear; Sir William's mother was a Montgomerie (see MSS.17737-17740).

Dates: 1735-1763.